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If two states have the same precedence, the state

with a greater weight will be give higher priority

considered during random selection.

Animation S tart Percent—Specifies where in the

clip’s animation you want it to start playing when

the s tate is active.

Atthedefaultvalueof0,theanimationwillstart

once the state is active. If the value is 66, the

animationwillstartplayingtwo-thirdsofthe

wayinoncethestatebecomesactive. Youcan

alsorandomizewheretheanimationstartsby

specifying a Animation Start Deviation value

other than 0.

Animation S tar t Deviation—Yo u c a n r a n d o m i z e

where the animation starts by specifying a

Animation Start Deviation value other than 0.

Range=0.0 to 1.0.

StateActivePercent—Specifies the percentage of

time the state needs to be valid over its interval

in order for it to be selected. Range=0 to 100.

Default=50.

Clip Select Seed—Changes how the r andom

selections o ccur.

If the value stays the same, you are guaranteed to

get the same random selections for that state.

OK —Acceptschangesandclosesthedialog.

Synthesis Panel

Select a Crowd ob ject. > Modify panel > Global Clip

Controllers rollout > N ew > Choose a GlobalClip object.

> S elect the object in the list. > Edit > Synthesis dialog >

Synthesis panel

Open Track View > Global Tracks > Block Control >

GlobalClip Proper ties > Synthesis dialog > Synthesis panel

Controls in the Synthesis panel are for adding

objects to be synthesized, selecting blend

transition points, and performing the synthesis.

When you synthesize, different sequences of

motion clips are applied to each specified object

based on the behavioral motion of its delegate.